Tang Guoqiang was born in 1952. He graduated from the Performance Department of Beijing Film Academy in 1987 and was rated as a national first-class actor in 1988. He is currently a member of the China Film Association, executive director of the China Film Foundation, vice chairman of the China Television Association, and president of the China Film Performance Society.
The above video is of Tang Guoqiang showing off his calligraphy at the United Nations Headquarters. What is completely different from the flashing shutter and clapping shots in the video is that almost all online comments are criticism. Let’s take a look:
Is it because netizens don’t understand? Or are the people at the scene pretending to be stupid? Maybe it’s because it’s hard for a scholar to catch the eyes of netizens!
Sometimes when I think about it, we really have to thank the Internet age. Everyone puts on a mask and turns into a "keyboard warrior", so that they can freely express their words without having to resort to false pretenses.
For example, in the era when there was only television, the calligraphers who were once held up to the altar all "fell off" one by one. As a result, when we face calligraphy that we don’t understand, we no longer blindly worship it, but become more open-minded to settle it, because we are afraid of being laughed at.
Writing calligraphy by celebrities is a matter of traveling around with a halo. This is also the most contradictory and difficult thing to solve in the calligraphy market in recent years. Not only has this phenomenon not diminished, more and more celebrities have also joined the ranks of the art market. Tang Guoqiang and Zhang Tielin, two emperor professional households, are such "artists".
They are also rated as artists because they often appear in calligraphy exhibitions and hold inscription sessions, but book friends are not used to them doing this. Recently, Tang Guoqiang’s calligraphy has been criticized as amateur level. Book friends: Tang Guoqiang’s calligraphy The brushwork is elegant and the font structure is disordered, so it cannot be called a work of art. Let's discuss what his calligraphy level is.
In the past, Tang Guoqiang’s calligraphy skills were trustworthy, but why is it now being criticized as amateurish? The main reason is that there are problems in his self-upgrading of calligraphy art. This is also the fundamental reason why there are more and more ugly calligraphy masters.
To put it simply, it is no longer suitable for them to develop within the foundation and regulations of traditional calligraphy. It is more that they have taken a so-called "calligraphy innovation" path. With my understanding of calligraphy, it is common to mess up the structure of traditional calligraphy. As time goes by, the works can no longer be called works of art. At best, the works can only be called artistic calligraphy, and sometimes they even fall short of that.
If you look closely at Tang Guoqiang's works, they are actually very close to Zhang Tielin's. Personally, his calligraphy style is too strong, and full of the greasy smell of the world. Once you see it too much, you will get used to it. Their works lack the beauty of calligraphy like those of Qi Gong and Er Tian. On the one hand, the calligraphy is not well practiced; on the other hand, it is completely unable to give everyone the artistry to appreciate.
Strictly speaking, their calligraphy is too market-oriented. Some netizens claim that the calligraphy of Tang Guoqiang and Zhang Tielin focuses on elegance, without the constraints of traditional rules and regulations, so it is understandable that the structure is disordered. But from an artistic point of view, it cannot bring the pleasure of appreciation to book lovers. Without the artistry of the work, what is the meaning of elegant calligraphy?
Calligraphy cannot be treated as a market art, nor can calligraphy and painting be profited by personal fame. It is also because of the existence of these two points that there are so many masters of ugly calligraphy. No matter how artistic the work is, if the calligraphy is not done well, no matter how much calligraphy is done, it will be in vain.